Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 06:58:11 05/03/02
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On May 02, 2002 at 19:40:14, Ian Osgood wrote: >On May 02, 2002 at 16:27:04, Roy Eassa wrote: > >> >>The Chessbase programs (Fritz & Junior are the ones I have) have a key feature >>that I haven't seen elsewhere: "Promote Line". >> >>When you have a game score with variations and sub-variations, it seems >>essential to be able to promote a sub-variation to a variation and even a >>variation to the main line. (Doing this demotes the one you replaced.) >> >>Is this feature available in any other chess GUI for Windows? Mac? Pocket PC? >>Palm? >> >>(Does anybody else even agree that this is a KEY feature to have??) >> >>I don't find myself ever using the Chess Partner or Classic Shredder interfaces >>simply because they lack this feature (I also like being able to expand and >>contract the number of variations that show up in parallel). >> >>Couldn't other GUIs' programmers add this one feature without too much >>difficulty? > >The Mac chess database program/engine host ExaChess also has Promote Line. It >works for both database and PGN variations. > >Ian Thanks! I guess I need to do my homework a little better next time!
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